Patience Of White Men In The Movie 42

As displayed in the historical movie 42, the great Jackie Robinson had to go through much hatred and trash talk; the patience the man had in order to step onto the field himself and play the game was incredible. The fans were extremely harsh as it was a deviant action for an African American to share the field with white males, Jackie did not only have to deal with the fans but even some of his so called “teammates”. The rude things fans would yell at him such as ‘Why don’t you look in the mirror? This is a white man’s game. All right? Get that through your thick monkey skull!’ or ‘Those are nice dance shoes, Bojangles. Leave your hat on the ground, maybe somebody will throw some money in it, huh? Put on a little show, nigger.’ Many individuals …show more content…
A video was released on social media; Jose Bautista was on the on deck circle waiting for his turn to hit when a white male was hassling Bautista about not having a hit all game. The white male made fun of bautista about a lot of things like his checkbook in his back pocket but not a base hit, Bautista turns back and let the male know that his checkbook would not be able to fit in his back pocket and went back to minding his own business. It may have not stopped the male from continuing his inappropriate comments but Bautista interacting back with him shows that Bautista can take a joke and fire back. Instead of the comments getting to him he simply jokes with the male right back and gets back to his job. If a different player with less patience would have encountered the situation it would have ended bad compared to how Bautista took care of …show more content…
It was only a matter of time until Flores gave up a couple hits; the opposing team began to chatter more throughout the game. The chatter did not die throughout the close game, after a full 7 innings played we had lost 2-3; we started to shake the opposing team hands as a ‘good game gesture’. A couple of their players still continued to give Flores a hard time, and he had enough of it. Flores went right up to the kids that were still chattering and got in each others faces. As it got all of our attentions we formed a circle and started to argue with the other team as well as pushing and shoving them. No punches were thrown as the coaches were able to get us separated, Flores was the hardest to get calm as he continued to fight my coach to get to the other kid. Unfortunately the other team had the last laugh since they actually had won the game. A couple days later the team was told that Flores had been kicked off the team. Although he was the victim in the situation; since he was the one to get in their faces meant that he had started everything. The lack of patience caused Flores his spot on the team; till this day we talk about the end of that game and he says he wishes he would have just walked